The president and his wife went from Buckingham Palace with David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn to pub lunch as Jinping aims to be seen as a ‘man of the people’.
The PM took China's president to The Plough at Cadsden in Buckinghamshire, where they both drank a Greene King IPA.
A source told the Sunday Times: "The Chinese are desperate to order fish and chips. They've asked about it repeatedly.
"I don't know if they know something we don't about the Chequers kitchens. It's all part of the president's view of himself as a man of the people."
The president arrived to discuss multi-billion pound nuclear power deals.
This is not the first time a pub has catered for a president, as in January 2014 David Cameron took French president Francois Holllande to The Swan Inn in his constituency – Witney.
But Hollande was seen running from the pub in a trip that saw the leaders reportedly clash over Cameron’s push for an EU referendum.
And in 2003 the then prime minister Tony Blair took president George Bush and his wife to the Dunn Cow Inn, where they also ate fish and chips. Blair had previously taken Jacques Chirac and Lionel Jospin to the same pub.